Immersive Wire
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The Immersive Wire is a leading UK-based website highlighting the new and exciting trends and companies in Immersive Reality (VR, AR, metaverse).
The site is handled by Tom Ffiske, who works at 3 Monkeys Zeno during the day. Source
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| Language | English |
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Search ArticlesSnap unveiled the Snap Specs
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Snap unveiled the Snap Specs (more below). Other stories: Valve has launched the Steam Frame at $1,059 (£889) for 256GB and $1,299 (£1,089) for 1TB, bundled with Half-Life: Alyx and sold through a randomised waitlist (more below). ❝ I have finished the Sun Eater series (seven books) and, thankfully, Harian Marlowe does eat the sun.
Meta’s Project Phoenix surfaces before Connect
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Meta’s Project Phoenix surfaces before Connect (more below). Other stories: ByteDance is reportedly developing an AI model to rival Google's Genie for real-time spatial video (more below).
Venice Film Festival had a few major stars this year
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Venice Film Festival had a few major stars this year (more below) Other stories: HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses are now going global (more below) ❝ Death Note: The Musical is nuts. Enough said. Tom Ffiske, Editor of the Immersive Wire Top story Venice Film Festival starts this week with a whole bunch of immersive films.
Meta issues update and begins marketing campaign on privacy and smart glasses
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Meta issues update and begins marketing campaign on privacy and smart glasses (more below). Other stories: Pico has postponed the reveal and release of its Pico Space Pro headset to Q4 2026, cancelling a 2 September Beijing launch event and citing the need for a major software upgrade (more below).
UK cinemas consider a ban on smart glasses
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: UK cinemas consider a ban on smart glasses (more below). Other stories: ICE has banned staff from wearing Meta smart glasses in the workplace, treating them as prohibited personal body-worn cameras under existing agency policy, per The Register (more below).
The list of places banning smart glasses grows longer
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: The list of places banning smart glasses grows longer (thoughts below). Other stories: AIG Hospitals performed a first-for-the-region skull-to-spine tumour surgery using AR/MR headsets and a robotic exoscope for real-time 3D imaging.
A sudden flare-up of privacy concerns and smart glasses
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: So what’s up with privacy and smart glasses? Other stories: Apple Vision Pro was the subject of a peer-reviewed UC San Diego study finding it cut average endoscopic tear-duct surgery time from 42.7 to 34.4 minutes with 100% functional success.
Timewalk will not be timeless
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Timewalk will not be timeless (review below) Other stories: Instagram will ban users who post non-consensual or harassment videos filmed on Meta smart glasses, per comments from Instagram head Adam Mosseri (more below) ❝ Piranesi is a weird book. Think Backrooms vibes with a mystery between the Tides and Halls.
Meta CTO confirmed the company is developing multiple VR headsets
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth has confirmed the company is developing multiple next-generation VR headsets (more below) Festival: Venice Immersive has unveiled its 10th-anniversary lineup for the 83rd Venice Film Festival (2-12 September), including Andy Serkis's "Nevatars" voiced by Daisy Ridley and Kathleen Turner.
LUMINISCENCE is pretty with a meandering plot
Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: LUMINISCENCE is pretty, though with a meandering plot (review below). Other stories: Vertigo Studios, the developer behind Metro Awakening, was reportedly building an unannounced standalone Tomb Raider VR title for Quest 3, PSVR2 and PC VR before the project was cancelled following the studio's closure last month (more below).